Aloe Marlothii - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds Squash

Aloe Marlothii - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds SquashAloe is a genus containing about 400 species of flowering succulent plants. The most common and well known of these is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". The genus is native to Africa, and is common in South Africa's Cape Province, the mountains of tropical Africa, and neighbouring areas such as Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, and the islands of Africa. Most Aloe species have a rosette of large, thick, fleshy leaves. The leaves are often lance shaped with

Growing to 1m a shrubby plant with suberect spreading leaves green to copper-red in colour with toothed margins and deep scarlet flowers in winter

A 5m deciduous tree

these are excellent anywhere in the garden

and as is the case with most peppers

branching fairly low down on the trunk

grows in sun or semi-shade

Various seed catalogues declare that the fruit produced on Amana Orange plants can grow up to 1kg or more

50cm perennial

Best planted autumn to early winter for spring through early summer blooming

leafless stems

The flowers appear in early summer in a mass of yellow pompons

Aloe dichotoma is an extremely tough tree that may reach an age of over 80 years and a height of approximately 7 metres